lol

https://archive.is/2jkFm

  • buh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    So nice of Kim to share his Netflix password with the rest of the country :kim-peace:

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Cuba does this too, if you pay a small fee they give you like a terabyte harddrive with a shit load of pirated movies and shows and it's like monthly

            • mittens [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              I don't think it's state sponsored, if anything cuban authorities just turn a fat eye. Regardless it is extremely cool, cubans not only watch whatever is on netflix by sharing drives, they also have wired extensive WANs themselves just to play online games like DoTA, I wouldn't mind doing that kind of shit for a living. Let me dig if I can find the youtube video.

              Here we go, Havana's StreetNet, it goes relatively nitty gritty too. No Vox Johnny Harris shit either

              https://youtu.be/lEplzHraw3c

          • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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            3 years ago

            That rocks lmao. Imagine buying shamelessly pirated media from the fucking government 🏴‍☠️

  • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Squid Game Showrunner: This show is about how bad capitalism is.

    DPRK: Yeah, look at how bad capitalism is!

    WaPo: Oh look, more North Korean PROPAGANDA

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      The best part is that they just had to include a half-starved N. Korean refugee character so everyone would know North Is Bad. And yet they've implicitly valorized and martyred her by the end of the show.

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      There's specifically a line in which the NK character is asked, in words similar to this, "are things better here? was it worth escaping?" and her reply is just silence. So, yeah, that person probably didn't see that scene yet or is willfully ignoring it.

      • newmou [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        There’s another line later on that I won’t spoil that expresses her wish to return

    • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      In my recollection the north korean character, when asked if things are really as bad as people say, stares silently leaving the audience to fill in the blank. Kind of weak imo.

      • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I mean, during that scene they're surrounded by people getting executed in a fake alleyway while a big timer ticks down in the sky, I don't really know how much more direct you can get.

        • OhNoSamSeder [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "Damn, it's even worse than this? That's crazy"

          --average American viewer

        • Swoosegoose [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          That beats getting shot after I pushed the big train in a circle to its one stop, only to be revived through Juche necromancy and do it all again tomorrow

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        She also says something along the lines of "I was told things were good here..."

      • mittens [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I just finished it and

        spoiler

        she says she wants to go home on the second to last chapter, whether that means exiting the squid game or going back to North Korea is up for interpretation

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I thought their dig at electoralism was just beautiful. When they get to vote on whether to continue the death games, you expect them to pull some shenanigans and rig the vote or something, but it turns out that it's just an actual vote. It looks like a choice between opposites, and I had a moment of genuine confusion when they voted to end the games and they ended the games. It looks so much like a choice between two opposites that I was thinking the message was going to be to :vote:, but the options aren't really opposites and voting doesn't solve anything.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        The old man voted to let everyone else out, because he suspected they'd be coming right back for the same reasons they got sucked in to begin with.

    • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      100% guarantee any post about this on reddit is filled to the absolute brim with this exact comment.

    • glk [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      lol pot calling the kettle black”

      "pol pot calling the kettle black” :kelly:

  • meme_monster [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Goddamn click bait headline. One paragraph addresses the head and the other 16 paragraphs are just a newsvertisement for the bestest most-watched show on Netflix!

    "In the south, capitalists repackage anti-capitalist sentiment as a product to sell" is not a slam anyway.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Correction: the prize was not a billion dollars.

    It was 38 million.

    400 people ran into their brutal deaths to achieve the wealth of a 2nd generation mid-sized business owner.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah it's like the average lottery of a small US state

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      At one point, it is implied that the super-successful cut-throat scholar guy already had this kind of money and just pissed it away. They also implied that some form of vice or debauchery was behind a significant number of the participants' financial positions. Even the ultra-wealthy audience members are written as removed gamblers, hedonists, and gluttons - just ones able to stay above water.

      There is a certain undertone to the show that suggests the prize money won't really satisfy or solidify their futures, because the underlying social ills are never addressed only exploited.